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mom, wife, cancer researcher, science geek, track mom, 🐶 mom, ex-ballet dancer, U2 fanatic, not necessarily in that order depending on the day. the CLE.
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#EverdayGlimmer - blue skies and diamond white snow walk with the doggo

He nails it.

#EverydayGlimmers: flu vax & med insurance Perhaps not a true glimmer but super thankful for. Flu vax- kept “the baby” flu mild Insurance allowed “college” boy to get IV fluids for dehydration from a cyclic vomiting episode Maybe a real glimmer tomorrow

Movies you’ve watched more than 6x in gifs only

About sums up this Friday so far

Feeling so sad for “the baby” - qualified in two events for all-star indoor track final tonight. Been fighting congestion all week, fever and vomiting this morning - just dropped out 😢 Right call, but sucky way to end indoor senior season.

2 out of 3

#EverydayGlimmer - not gonna lie it was a rough day on many different fronts - but the “middle” boy called from college “ just to say Hi” 🥰💕

Morning BlueSky. Shoot film. Capture truth. East treats.

1 million sec = ~11.6 days 1 billion sec = ~31.7 years (11,578 days) Is a BIG difference

#EverydayGlimmer - a boss who is trying to come with backup plans to keep your job

This. And I don’t want to see another “x for [insert disease]” awareness, another person complain about lack of cures/meds/treatment - my response to you may not be censored Yes I’m bitter. But yes - I’m going to go back to my computer & do more work on diseases because it’s what I do

And rest of 🧵

#EverydayGlimmer - rewatching The West Wing - I need some normalcy and images of what used to be

State Dept survey on US public attitudes to #ForeignAid, plz Repost, also plz answer @50501movement #USAID #ThereIsNoThemOnlyUs forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Stop saying fired. Fired implies they did something wrong. They. Did. Not

Whatever else emerges in time about the Delta crash in Canada, one thing is certain: the importance & amazing professionalism of flight attendants who safely evacuated the plane in a matter of seconds.

I know they don’t owe us anything- but where the hell are past presidents and officials? From both parties. Aside from Pete I have heard a peep. Their silence is deafening

#EverydayGlimmer Got some completed projects framed today - including finally getting last years temp chart into something

Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post would not run this ad. This is the power of oligarchy.

• Cutting Medicare & Medicaid won’t improve health or “address chronic disease • Neither will defunding schools with vaccine requirements. • Or allowing preventable diseases to spread. 1/

Octavia Butler was a black female science fiction writer who won several awards for her works, including Hugo, Locus, and Nebula awards. In 1995, Butler became the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship.

Finally creating/updating my LinkedIn (I know, I know - I’m very bad, but times require it) Inquiring minds want to know - is there an easy way to import publications? Do I really have to manually put in all 100 of them 😬 🧪

Related to my previous post Just what you want with record high flu incidence and hospitalization rates happening - and the potential for human to human transmission of H5N1 to occur 🫤 We won’t know till well after the bird has flown the coop Hopefully Canada & Mexico are ready w/ surveillance

But this time a good portion of the country is cheering for the plane to hit

I repeat…

I was one of those kids that got fed. They didn't care what color you were or about your income, they just did the right thing and I have never forgotten it. We were too poor to afford breakfast.

#EverydayGlimmer - this sweatshirt with its simple reminder as I listen to the artists songs today To share the space with simple living things, infinitely suffering But fighting off, like all creation, the absence of itself,

Info under the radar CDC (back when they could study) showing vets w/ H5N1 antibodies w/o known contact Samples collected in SEPT Currently: record flu levels Currently; little to no typing of flu variants IMHO: human to human may be happening But we won’t know www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...

“With the best scientists” That we just let go, are planning to letting go, and gutting - so really we aren’t doing anything but we’ll say we are because the base doesn’t care

Wonder if all the people cheering in local social media about RFK going after ADHD meds and SSRIs (back in our day 🙄) looked further and saw he’s going after your GLPs as well - whole hell of a lot of them trying to find ways to get those w/o a real script

🧵 It’s Sunday morning, and eggs are still expensive, so here’s a pro baking tip: You can replace eggs with baking soda & vinegar. This works really well for pancakes (and even cakes, muffins, and quick breads). Here’s how ⬇️ (1/4)